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Bathroom

Well, today I’m officially calling the master bathroom makeover compleat! I still haven’t put down the threshold, I’m going to reuse one from the kitchen since we will be busting up that floor in a couple of weeks. But otherwise, everything is finished, I even scraped the paint from the tiles arround the shower! There […]

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I woke up this morning to rain. Rainy day, Monday and Tax Day? All three, and still a fabulous, productive day! I had Hanna Montana help keep the mudroom clean and dry. I made a sweet unlined roman shade for the bathroom. Still have to hang it! And I started a new project, any guesses as […]

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I wasn’t around when grass cloth was popular in the late 60’s, early 70’s. For my entire adult life, I’ve tried to ‘strip’ all the wallpaper in my path! Tacky florals, stripes, silly borders have never appealed to me, but I’m drawn to grass cloth like a moth to the flame. Yes, it can be retro, […]

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I am So happy to be nearing the end of this bathroom re-do, and so very pleased with the outcome! The beautiful marble floors are finished. This was the first time I’ve ever laid marble tile; it was really not so different than ceramic/porcelain, maybe somewhat more fragile. Now that it is in place it […]

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Phase One, Tear everything up! Probably the correct order in which to makeover a space would be to finish floors last, well what’s fun about that? Isn’t it better to put in beautiful new floors and THEN drag in nail guns, ladders, paint, ect? It’s not? Oh well, I wish I could say this was […]

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Sometimes it feels like I’ve spent untold hours in the bathroom! I have three smallish bathrooms, and over the years they have seen more redesigns/work than any other rooms in the house. First wall paper, then wood floors, then no more wall paper, then tile counters, then fresh paint, then tile floors, then granite counters, […]